NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Thursday, May 28, 2015
INCIDENTS
Badlands NP
Driver Killed In Rollover Accident
On the afternoon of May 23rd, a 1999 Ford F-250 driven by an Oklahoma man in his mid-60s went off Highway 240 near Ancient Hunters Overlook, rolled twice down an embankment, and ended up on its roof between 50 and 75 feet from the road in rugged terrain.
Rangers Tyson Nehring and Danny Baker responded to the scene along with the Pennington County Sheriff's Department officers. The driver of the vehicle was determined to be dead on scene by a coroner from the sheriff's department. The body was retrieved by a technical rescue team from Pennington County Search & Rescue.
Preliminary field testing determined that the driver was operating under the influence of alcohol. The NPS is jointly investigating the incident with the Pennington County Sheriff's Department and the South Dakota Highway Patrol.
[Casey J. Osback, Chief Ranger]
Golden Gate NRA
Driver Extricated From Car Following High-Speed Crash
A car with three occupants went off Conzelman Road at Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands around 9 p.m. on May 13th.
Two of the occupants of the rolled over vehicle were able to escape without injuries with the assistance of other visitors, but the driver was pinned inside and had to be extricated by personnel from Southern Marin Fire Department. The California Highway Patrol and U.S. Park Police also assisted on the accident.
The driver refused medical attention and was taken to Marin County Jail on DUI charges. His BAC was determined to be .151%.
According to park visitors who witnessed the accident, the vehicle was traveling at speeds in excess of 80 mph when it rolled.
[Matthew E. Wallat, Law Enforcement Specialist]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA's Climate Prediction Center says that there will likely be fewer storms than normal during this year's Atlantic hurricane season. There's a 70 percent likelihood of six to eleven named storms, with three to six becoming hurricanes.
Northeast Region - Freedom's Way National Heritage Area hosted its first area-wide conference, entitled "Community Character and Common Themes: The Memory and Meaning of Place," between March 26th and March 28th.
Fire and Aviation Management - The National Park Service is recruiting NPS employees to serve on administrative payment teams. The deadline for submission of applications, which can be filed online, is June 5th.
Intermountain Region - A Maryland man who rode his motorcycle across the country, following the path of an epic journey made a century ago by his grandfather, recently visited Petrified Forest and had his photo taken at the same point as his grandfather.
Learning and Development Division - Jennifer (JJ) Di Bella, currently the learning strategy architect for the Peace Corps, has been selected as the Service's learning and development chief. She will assume her new duties around June 1st.
To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:
NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index
Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/
The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).
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